Anyone preserving messages from a deceased family member or close friend
The last messages from the people you've lost
When someone dies, their WhatsApp account stays alive in your chat list, until one day it isn't. Eventually the number is reissued, the account is cleared, and the conversation is gone.
Pain points
- Phone numbers get reissued months after a death; old account vanishes
- Screenshots lose the voice notes, often the part that matters most
- Family WhatsApp groups change owners and old admins get removed
- No vendor lets you 'memorialize' a WhatsApp account the way Facebook does
How Chat Hoarding answers
- Voice notes playable forever, attached to the conversation they came from
- Photos and videos stay attached to the messages they were sent with
- Names, not phone numbers, even if the phone is gone
- One file you can copy to family members, hand to a cousin, store in the bank box
Capabilities that matter for this use case
The whole conversation, not just the words
Voice notes, photos, videos, calls, locations, group history, and deletion markers with sender attribution.
Names instead of phone numbers
Auto-fills from your device address book (vCard exported by Chat Hoarding for Android, or pulled via adb), or manually per JID. Handles @lid privacy IDs.
.tarc, one file, lifetime archive
Bundles manifest, decrypted msgstore.db, an optional contacts.json (imported address book) and manual_contacts.json (your in-app renames), and the media folder, all inside a macOS package. Double-click to open. Survives the phone.
Two network calls. That's it.
Decryption, browsing, archive creation: fully on-device. Companion has no INTERNET permission. Chat Hoarding for Mac's only outbound calls are license activation and the update check.
Ready to archive yours?
$99 lifetime · 2 Macs · revocable from the account page · 14-day refund